Every family has a classic stuffing recipe. Mine uses canned water chestnuts, which we started adding when we lived in Hawaii. Here’s a more traditional dressing, which you can tweak and customize to make your own. Thanksgiving Stuffing with Sausage Serves: 6-8 Prep time: 30 min. Cook time: 45 min. Ingredients 6 cups cubed stale […]
As you prepare for the food fest that is Thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a shopping list that corresponds with our traditional Thanksgiving recipes and will be a good starting place for yours. Produce 1 lb. bag carrots 1 sleeve celery 1 lemon 8 oz. package mushrooms 4 onions 2 bunches parsley 2 or 4 pounds […]
The most basic of turkey recipes. If you start with a quality bird, this is all you need to do. No brining, flipping or basting. But feel free to fancy it up. Change the herbs in the cavity, add a sage rub to the skin; just keep the basic technique the same and it’ll be […]
Pork tenderloin can be made in a snap on a weeknight, but the herb-cheese-bread crumb topping on this recipe makes it guest worthy or just hey-we’re-all-home-tonight worthy. This recipe is adapted from “It’s A Shore Thing,” the Junior League of Evanston-North Shore’s cookbook that celebrates cooks and dishes from the North Shore. Serves: 4 Prep […]
Let’s face it, some of us see “yeast” in a recipe and click to another page. If you’re dough-phobic, feel free to cheat with store bought dough, dough in a tube or even a preformed crust. Serves: 2-3 Prep time: 15 min. (homemade dough) Cook time: 15 min. Ingredients 1 lb. pizza dough […]
When your end result is a flat disc, you can get away with stirring and then ignoring your dough. No need to knead—this dough is as easy as it gets. No-Knead Pizza Dough Makes: 2 pizza crusts, each about 1 lb. Prep time: 10 min., plus rising time 1 1/3 cups warm water 1 packet […]
Try this scrumptious marinade for flank steak, skirt steak or London broil. It’s easy and fast. And every time I make it, someone wonders aloud: “Why we don’t have this every night?” Flank Steak with Soy Marinade Serves: 6 Prep time: 10 min., plus 6-8 hrs. marinating time Cook time: 25 min. Ingredients 1/2 […]
These are elegant and easy. The batter is a variation on chocolate chip cookies, but with fresh raspberries and pecans. Best of all, no shaping or scooping. Just bake into bars, then serve in decadent squares. Summer Raspberry Blondies Ingredients 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 2 cups light brown sugar, packed 2 […]
I have always loved grilled cheese sandwiches. My mother used to make the American cheese kind, but with whole wheat bread. Cognitive dissonance, I know. Now that I’m an adult, I can and do make them with better ingredients. Real cheddar cheese, bacon and apple on white sandwich bread from Heavenly Hearth. Mozzarella, pesto, […]
This old-fashioned coleslaw goes with anything and everything grilled. It makes a lot of salad, but the leftovers last for days, so make the whole recipe even if you’re just cooking for a small group. Sweet and Sour Coleslaw Serves: 12 Prep Time: 15 minutes and then 24 hours to marinate before serving Dressing […]
